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A63797	Healths grand preservative: or The womens best doctor A treatise, shewing the nature and operation of brandy, rumm, rack, and other distilled spirits, and the ill consequences of mens, but especially of womens drinking such pernicious liquors and smoaking tobacco. As likewise, of the immoderate eating of flesh without a due observation of time, or nature of the creature which hath proved very destructive to the health of many. Together, with a rational discourse of the excellency of herbs, highly approved of by our ancestors in former times. And the reasons why men now so much desire the flesh more than other food. A work highly fit to be persued and observed by all that love their health, and particularly necessary to the female sex, on whose good or ill constitution the health and strength, or sickness and weakness of all [cropped]sterity does in a more especial manner depend. By Tho. Tryon.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1682 (1682)	Wing T3182; ESTC R219417	19,602	25

for Man is a Prince in this World and in him is contained the true Nature of all the Inferiour Creatures for if it were not so 〈◊〉 could not be their Prince nor be sustained by them And th● Man was made greater then any other Creature that is visible● and to be Lord over all yet nevetheless he having a Simile with the Nature of all things is thereby rendered capable to be wrought on by every inferior thing he shall suffer his desires to enter into and by degrees he is liable to become captivated unto that thing be it either Good or Evil for every like as I told you before works on and awakens its likeness This was the reason why Moses commanded that unclean Beasts should not be eaten that the human Nature might not mix or incorporate in its self the Beastial qualities for every individual Man has essentially in him the true Natures and Essences of all the Beasts of the Field and Fishes of the Sea as also of all Herbs and Fruits Stones and Minerals and whatsoever else can be thought of for if this were not so then Man would not be subject to be wrought on by all neither would the various sorts of Food agree with him or nourish him The wise Antients understanding this and that every thing had power to attract unto it self such matter out of all things as is capable to nourish its own Body therefore in those days the eating of Flesh was not in such Reputation as of late years it hath been especially as it is in England who do make it their chief Food All Vegetables and Fruits being in themselves of a clean Simple Nature and Opperation which being well prepared and temperately eaten have onely power to waken their Similes in the Body and Senses as aforesaid But on the contrary all Beasts especially unclean Beasts are endued with all kind of Beastial Passions as Anger Revenge Covetuousness Love and Hate which dispositions and Passions of the Flesh but especially the Blood doth retain after such Animals are Killed and for that reason it was that the Blood of all sorts of Beasts was so strictly forbidden for the Essential Spirits dwell in the Blood and in the Blood and Spirits lye hid all the dispositions and Inclinations the Creature was endued withal and therefore all sorts of Flesh that were permitted to be eaten were to be well Purged from the Blood And also this same Blood was either to be consumed by Fire or an hole made in the Earth and the Blood cast into it and covered that the wrathful Spirits and Vapours thereof might not defile the Air which is continually Breathed into our Bodies for when any Creature is Killed the great pain and Agony they endure does so powerfully awaken the Center of the wrathful Fire and also the Internal Poysons which are the Root of every Life that the said Fierce Poysonous Spirits seize the Blood on their right Fountain of pre●rvation so that the Blood does not only contain all the natural ●ispositions passions and Inclinations but also the awakened Poysons and irritated Spirits which were violently stirred up by Deaths stroke For when the natural Life is in danger the continuation of which is so sweet unto all Creatures and they do so unwillingly part with it especially when the Creature is in perfect Health and Strength what a strange fear and dread must needs attend the Creature in this condition and how strongly and violently are all the Centers and Powers of nature stirred up and then are awakened the revengeful Spirits which do contain the Blood for that is their Habitation which in this Agonous condition does often spread it self through the whole Body and makes the Flesh look red but this is generally drawn back again by the drawing away of the Blood where the wound is made Now if this Blood be exposed to the open Air these fiery dark wrathful Spirits do by degrees evaporate and incorporate themselves with the Air and so de●●les it and renders it pernicious The very same is to be understood in all other Uncleannesses and these are the chief Reasons why the Prophet Moses commanded the Blood either to be Burnt on the Altar or Buried in the Earth tho there doth remain somewhat more to be said why he commanded the Blood to be consumed on the Altar by Fire which I shall forbear and speak of it in its proper place for those fiery wrathful Spirits that do evaporate themselves into the Air being continually breathed into the body by such people as do communicate near such places as Slaughter-houses and the like and more especially those that are of killing Imployments those awakened wratchful Spirits do enter them and powerfully incorporate themselves with their Similes for this cause all Butchers and others that do use such Trades are more fierce and cruel sooner moved to wrath than others killing is as easie and familiar to them as Plowing the Land is to the Husbandman and in a word they are far more inclined to violence than men of other Imployments are The same is to be understood in all other Trades and also 〈◊〉 Communications● as those that are brought up and have their 〈◊〉 versations amongst Horses are not most of them Robustick Pro●● Bold and Surly like the Creatures they communicate with th● same is likewise to be understood in many other other hard work●in● rough Trades and Imployments are not most of them rash head strong scarce endued with common Humanity There is nothin● so good or so bad but Man is capable of being captivated to it from this Ground it is that weak Inclinations that a Man in him self is hardly sensible of may either by Imployments or Commu●●cations be made strong which is one Reason why Mens Inclinations and their Love and Hate alters and changes according to time place business and communication as some Men have declared that they did not fear being overcome with Drink Women or th● like Evils because at that time they found no Inclinations to such things nevertheless time opportunity communications and other circumstances concurring many of them have been overcome by those Vices they so little stood in fear of though also Astrologick Configurations and Influences have a share in altering and changing Mens inclinations and more especially when other causes concur For this cause the most prudent in all Ages have advised all Men to avoid evil occasions and the Apostle Paul saith That Evil Communication corrupts good Manners the truth of which no Man will or can deny Now if Imployments Communications Labours Words and all kind of outward business have so great power of changing and altering Dispositions and Inclinations increasing them and the contrary how can we imagine but Mea●● and Drinks received into the Body will have the same or greater power and operation as those that feed much on unclean Flesh as on Swine and that have their conversation amongst Animals are not many of them much like

Countries therein both in quantity and quality for in those hot Regions the Sun hath greater power to prepare all such things And if our English would but accustome their selves to such harmless natural simple Foods and moderate Drinks the forementioned distempers would hardly be known 7. It is also to be noted and much to be pittied that of late years many English Women have betaken themselves to the drinking of Brandy and other Spirits and have invented the Black-Cherry Brandy which is in great Esteem so that she is no body that hath not a Bottle of it stand at her ●lbow or if ever so little Qualm or disorder be on the Stomack or perhaps meerly fancied then away to the Brandy Bottle so that when such people come to be Sick which most of them are very sub●●ct unto the Phisitians do not know what to Administer they having in their Health used themselves to such high ●●ery drinks that their Cordials seem like water to them Besides there are many fatal inconveniencies attend the Female Sex more than the Male in drinking such drinks most of which are not so proper to be publickly mentioned in this place and therefore I shall forbear but some I cannot but instance in and though perhaps some Women too much addicted to the D●lights of the Bottle may be offended with me for telling them the Truth and endeavouring to wean them from the Beloved Dra●● yet to do them good I shall venture the Hail-shot of their Tongues and hope they will in t●me grow so wise as not to indulge a foolish so●tish humour when it ●ends apparently to destroy not only their own healths and shortning of their Lives but likewise In●alls diseases and destruction on their poor Innocent Children for it is not only against the Feminine Nature to drink strong Drinks but also destructive to the Generation of Mankind It makes them Masculine and Robustick filling them with Fury and Madness and many other Indecencies which are no less pernicious then shameful in a Woman It also Distempers them by causing Fumes and Vapours to Fly into the Head generating Wind in abundance Therefore the Wise Antients did account it a Crime for Women to Drink strong Drink or Wine tho their Countrys did afford Wine in abundance and good reason they had for the whole preservation of Mankind resides chiefly in the Temperance and Government of the Women if they are Intemperate the Radix of Men is corrupted are we not like to have very Fine Hopeful Healthy Children when the Mother by excessive Pampering her unweildy Car●ass has Contracted more Diseases then an Hospital or when they are put out to some Drunken Nurse that instead of affording them wholsome Natural Milk Suckles them up with the unconcocted Dreggs of that Brandy with which she daily overcharges her filthy Stomach The Nature of Women will not bear Excess in Meats and Drinks as Mens will without mannifest danger to their Healths and also to the Health of their Children most Windy Diseases both in Women and Children being caused by their Intemperance both in quantity and quallity They overcharging their Nature with Food containing too much Nourishment and Drinks that are too strong This is chiefly observable amongst wanton Citizens and the Richer sort of People who pay dearly for the Lickerishness of their Pallats by the Diseases that thence arise they being much more Distempered then the ordinary Pains-taking People I confess there are hardly any Women in the World so Intemperate and such great Lovers of their Bellys as the English no● is there any Nation more Subject to variety of Diseases and therefore they are afflicted with divers Distempers which Women in other Countrys know nothing of And as our Children are generally weak puling Rickety and Sickly so the occasion thereof is too evident since they are almost made Gluttons from the very Cradle their Mothers gorging and Feeding them till they loath their Victuals and often cast it up again and when they have been Cramming all day the good Woman entertains her Gossips with Stories what a little Stomach her Child has and that she can get it to eat nothing and She wonders how it Lives and indeed so she may but for a quite contrary reason for this oppressing Nature with Excess in ●●●uth is not only the cause of the Death of many but in others ●●●ows such Seeds and lays Foundations for Distempers that they 〈◊〉 scarce ever out-grow them also many Women out of the like ●●olish Fondness give their Children strong Drink which is very ●●structive to their Health Nor is it become unfrequent for Women not only to Drink ●●andy but also to Smoak Tobacco which two things have a great ●●finity Tobacco being an Herb of Mars and Saturn it hath its ●●ery Quality from Mars and its Poysonous fulsome attractive ●●ature from Saturn the common use of it in Pipes is very Inju●●ous to all sorts of People but more especially to the Female Sex ●xcept it be taken very sparingly in a Physical way for some ●atery and windy Diseases but the usual taking of it destroys the ●hysical vertues and Opperation thereof only the daily Smoaking 〈◊〉 may be profitable to Gluttons and those that Eat and Drink to ●uperfluity of Rich Food and strong Drink and live Idle Lives 〈◊〉 such want Evacuations but Exercise and Temperance were ●uch better for their Health Tobacco and Brandy are certainly utter Enemies to Women ●nd also to their Children for their Spirits and Balsamick Body 〈◊〉 hence their true Life Shines is more volatile and tender then Mens and their natural Heat is not so strong for this cause Women cannot bear or endure any extreams either in Meats Drinks or Exercises without mannifest danger to their Healths they be●ng generally more Sanguine then Men and their Central Heat ●eaker therefore all kind of Inequality makes deeper Impression ●n them and they are sooner moved to all kinds of Passions ●or Women in their Radix are Compounded more of the sweet ●riendly Sanguine Nature their dignification being chiefly from ●he Element of Water but the Root of Mens Nature is from the ●trong might of the Fire And for the same cause Women are more Chast then Men and of colder Natures tho many Men do believe the contrary but they are greatly mistaken in this particular having no true understanding of Nature they have ●udged thus hardly of Women because many of them are so easily drawn into inconveniencies by the pretended friendship of Men but I do affirm that their being so easily overcome is not from their unchast desires but chiefly from their Friendly Courteous effeminate Natures being of a yielding Temper which is essentially in the Root of their Lives and when a Man has once awakened in them the Love-String which is quickly done he may comm●● them as he pleases now finding them comply they imagine th● of them which they find in themselves Not but that some W●● men are as Unchast as Men